THE Atheist Bus Campaign, which was launched in the UK then spread to many other countries, is about to hit Finland – despite opposition from a group of drivers with a religious bent. Leader of the group of dissenting bus drivers is Tapani Mäkinen, who conceded that there were few legal ways for Christian and [...]
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BENEATH an hysterical headline in today’s Dail Wail – How cash meant for promoting faith is going to an organisation that campaigns AGAINST Christianity – someone called Steve has left this comment: Christianity is dead in the UK – RIP bible bashers! As for the other muppet religions, they should be banned. Well done Labour, [...]
SPARE a thought for “Proclaiming Truth In London”. The Christian evangelical group’s modest hope was that their Bible-quoting bus advert would hell-scare a few of the capital’s pedestrians into worshipping their zombie-god. Instead, it sparked a planet-wide atheist counter-revolution, with public transport in cities around the globe bearing messages which cast varying degrees of doubt [...]
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THE National Secular Society’s annual prize for Secularist of the Year has been awarded jointly to Dr Evan Harris MP and Lord Avebury for their success in getting blasphemy laws abolished. The prestigious prize was handed over by Professor Richard Dawkins at a glittering awards ceremony at the Imperial Hotel in central London at the [...]
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STEPHEN “Birdshit” Green, the whingeing fundie fruitcake who heads a failed campaigning outfit called Christian Voice, claimed yesterday that Advertising Standards Authority was “a tool of the politically-correct secularist establishment” and that the ASA Council was appointed and run by a homosexual. His hysterical attack on the ASA follows its ruling yesterday the Atheist Bus [...]
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THE Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has just concluded that the “There’s probably no God” bus ad campaign by the British Humanist Association is not in breach of the advertising code. The ASA will therefore not launch an investigation and the case is now closed. The ASA said it had: Carefully assessed the 326 complaints it [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
